k
K is the 11th letter of the English alphabet or is short for kilo or karat.
(noun)- An example of k is the first letter in the word "kite."
- An example of K is the abbreviated form of the word kilogram.
The definition of k is related to the 11th letter in the English alphabet or the sound of that letter.
(adjective)An example of K used as an adjective is in the phrase "K pancakes," which means pancakes shaped like that letter.
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See k in Webster's New World College Dictionary
or K
- the eleventh letter of the English alphabet: from the Greek kappa, a borrowing from the Phoenician
- any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (k) of kept
- a type or impression for k or K
- the eleventh in a sequence or group
- an object shaped like
adjective
- of k or K
- eleventh in a sequence or group
- shaped like
- karat (carat)
- kilo-
- kilogram
- kilometer
- kopeck(s)
Boltzmann constant
noun
- Comput. kilobyte
- Informal a thousand dollars: she earns 40K now
Origin: k(ilo-)
- karat (carat)
- kathode (cathode)
- Physics Kelvin
- Football kickersometimes written k
- kilometer
- kindergarten
- Chess king
- Bible Kings
- knit
- kosher: prepared according to kashrut
- ☆
Origin: < (struc)k (out)
Baseball strikeout - Comput. the number 1,024, or 2
- Music a prefix to the numbers of the works of W. A. Mozart as indexed in the catalog of his works compiled by L. Köchel (1800-77), Austrian musicologist
- Elec. capacity
Origin: ModL kalium < Ar (al-)qili: see alkali
Chem. potassium
See k in American Heritage Dictionary 4
or K
noun pl. K's k's or K's also ks or Ks- The 11th letter of the modern English alphabet.
- Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter k.
- The 11th in a series.
- Something shaped like the letter K.
abbreviation
karat
noun
Slang
One thousand dollars.
Origin:
Origin: k(ilo)-
.The symbol for the element potassium.
Origin:
Origin: From New Latin kalium, potassium; see hypokalemia
. abbreviation
- kaon
- kelvin
- kilobyte
- kindergarten
- Games king
- Bible Kings
- strikeout
abbreviation
knight (title)
A peak in the Karakoram Range of northern Kashmir in the region controlled by Pakistan. At 8,616.3 m (28,250 ft), it is the second-highest mountain in the world. It was designated K2 in 1856 because it was the second Karakoram peak to be measured for height and was later (1888) named for Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923), a British soldier and surveyor.
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